Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and FailedHMH, 4 de nov. de 2014 - 384 páginas The true story behind Christina Baker Kline’s bestselling novel is revealed in this “engaging and thoughtful history” of the Children’s Aid Society (Los Angeles Times). A powerful blend of history, biography, and adventure, Orphan Trains fills a grievous gap in the American story. Tracing the evolution of the Children’s Aid Society, this dramatic narrative tells the fascinating tale of one of the most famous—and sometimes infamous—child welfare programs: the orphan trains, which spirited away some two hundred fifty thousand abandoned children into the homes of rural families in the Midwest. In mid-nineteenth-century New York, vagrant children, whether orphans or runaways, filled the streets. The city’s solution for years had been to sweep these children into prisons or almshouses. But a young minister named Charles Loring Brace took a different tack. With the creation of the Children’s Aid Society in 1853, he provided homeless youngsters with shelter, education, and, for many, a new family out west. The family matching process was haphazard, to say the least: at town meetings, farming families took their pick of the orphan train riders. Some children, such as James Brady, who became governor of Alaska, found loving homes, while others, such as Charley Miller, who shot two boys on a train in Wyoming, saw no end to their misery. Complete with extraordinary photographs and deeply moving stories, Orphan Trains gives invaluable insights into a creative genius whose pioneering, if controversial, efforts inform child rescue work today. |
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... and the Children He Saved and Failed Stephen O'Connor. There's a great work wants doing in this our generation, Charley—let's off jacket and go about it. Frederick Law Olmsted Prologue: Working for Human Happiness ON THE MORNING of ...
... and the Children He Saved and Failed Stephen O'Connor. There's a great work wants doing in this our generation, Charley—let's off jacket and go about it. Frederick Law Olmsted Prologue: Working for Human Happiness ON THE MORNING of ...
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... MORNING of October i, 1854, forty-five children sat on the front benches of a meetinghouse in Dowagiac, Michigan. Most were between ten and twelve years old, though at least one was six and a few were young teenagers. During the week ...
... MORNING of October i, 1854, forty-five children sat on the front benches of a meetinghouse in Dowagiac, Michigan. Most were between ten and twelve years old, though at least one was six and a few were young teenagers. During the week ...
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... morning at the tavern where they were staying. In an account of the trip published by the Children's Aid Society, Smith said that in order to get a child, applicants had to have recommendations from their pastor and a justice of the ...
... morning at the tavern where they were staying. In an account of the trip published by the Children's Aid Society, Smith said that in order to get a child, applicants had to have recommendations from their pastor and a justice of the ...
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... morning, the soft, and genial, and silent light, is an agent many times more powerful. But let the light of the morning cease and return no more, let the hour of the morning come, and bring with it no dawn: the out-cries of a horror ...
... morning, the soft, and genial, and silent light, is an agent many times more powerful. But let the light of the morning cease and return no more, let the hour of the morning come, and bring with it no dawn: the out-cries of a horror ...
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... morning.28 — Horace Bushnell All of his life Charles Loring Brace was attracted to grand hypotheses that aspired to be as comprehensive as God's own thoughts. Preeminent among these was Darwin's theory of natural selection, which was to ...
... morning.28 — Horace Bushnell All of his life Charles Loring Brace was attracted to grand hypotheses that aspired to be as comprehensive as God's own thoughts. Preeminent among these was Darwin's theory of natural selection, which was to ...
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